Over the long term, the industrialized military is endangered by net energy decline, but the short-term danger is failure of the global financial system. Because everything is financed by and paid through financial institutions, breakdown of the financial system will be a devastating blow to the defense industry (not to mention all other sectors). Indeed, it could well trigger the cascading failures that lead to collapse. Anyway, as for the military, in the long run it will be back to horses. -- RF

Organizers acknowledged a year ago that levels of E. Coli were up to 20 times above acceptable levels set by international sports federations, and fecal coliform bacteria were seven times over the limit.